ATFX Review: Safety, Fees, Leverage and Accounts

A global award-winning forex broker, ATFX was established with the aim of providing a robust online trading platform for retail traders interested in trading, forex, cryptocurrency, precious metals and energy CFDs. Today, the company, headed by an elite management team, has a global presence and offers a wide range of trading products.

To ensure a seamless trading experience, the company offers MetaTrader 4, the most popular trading platform in the world, while connecting MT4 with the top liquidity providers with the latest bridging technologies. Due to its client-focus, ATFX also offers free access to market research, courses for all levels of trading, from novices to advanced levels, 24/5 live help and customer support, and highest level of protection for traders.

Country Restrictions

The broker does not provide services to residents of USA (United States of America), Canada (Provinces of British Columbia, Saskatchewan and, Quebec), and DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea). Also include Trinidad, Yemen, Tunisia, Vanuatu, Tobago, and Sri Lanka. It also includes Bosnia and Herzegovina, Syria, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Japan, Turkey, and Ethiopia. So it’s good to confirm before choosing that ATFX is available in your country. 

ATFX account types 

The forex broker offers Demo, Standard and Edge account.  The Demo account is free and useful for new forex traders, they provide 100,000 USD virtual money to practice virtual market trading. The broker offers a fast and straightforward demo account opening opportunity. 

Standard account   

ATFX offers standard account that works as “Low Market Entry” account. This account minimum deposit is $100 and low spared start from 0.5 pips. The maximum leverage is 1:4 while the margin call is set 100%. 

 Edge account

ATFX edge account for professional and expert traders. The account comes with a big deposit from standard account. The minimum deposit is $500 but spared is same as standard account that starts from 0.5 pips. Also, the leverage and margin are the same as the standard account. This account allow to negative balance protection, scalping, hedging, and EAs.

To choose the edge account a client has to keep min $5,000 in the account. 

Trading Platforms

ATFX the broker offers only MetaTrader 4 trading platform. The trading platform is available for iPhone, android, web trader and PC. This platform is allow automatic trading with EAs and user-friendly features. All of device version offers Windows-based platform, one click trade execution, news and chart, user friendly trading platform, good trading interface and more opportunities. All are versions are downloadable and free to use. 

Mobile trading

ATFX mobile trading is very user friendly. It works faster than others. You can choose for both iOS and Android version. This trading platform interface is similar with others. You should find excellent charting options, trading features and technical indicators.

Deposit & Withdrawals options

ATFX offers straightforward and time-efficient trading and funding options also. The brokers offer highly efficient, and secure funding options that easy to use. ATFX offers multiple funding options for both deposit and withdraw. 

The broker offers fees free deposit but you have to pay if you deposit more than US $1,000 with local banks. All deposit methods are available to instant deposit without the local bank, it can take up to 3-7 business days. 

The deposit methods are: -

Credit/debit cards (Visa and master), Electronic payment (Netteler, skrill and NganLuong), local bank transfer, and bank wire transfer.

The withdraw options are the same. Electronic payment (Netteler, skrill and NganLuong) process time is instant, Electronic payment (Netteler, skrill and NganLuong) process time depend on bank processing time, the local bank transfer process time is 2 working days and the bank wire transfer can take up to 3-7 business days.

Trading instruments

The broker offers multiple trading assets and instruments include forex, precious metals, cfd shares, crude oil CFDs, and index CFDs. 

Currency trading

In the currency trading market, the broker offers 43 currency these pairs are 

Majors

AUD/USD NZD/USD USD/CAD EUR/USD USD/JPY GBP/USD USD/CHF 

Minors

GBP/AUD GBP/CAD GBP/CHF GBP/JPY GBP/NZD NZD/CAD NZD/CHF NZD/JPY AUD/CAD AUD/CHF AUD/JPY AUD/NZD CAD/CHF CAD/JPY CHF/JPY EUR/AUD EUR/CAD EUR/CHF EUR/GBP EUR/JPY EUR/NZD 

Exotic

EUR/HUF EUR/PLN EUR/TRY USD/RUB USD/TRY USD/SEK USD/ZAR USD/CNH USD/HKD USD/SGD USD/CZK USD/DKK USD/HUF USD/MXN USD/NOK USD/PLN 

Precious Metals

XAU/USD London Gold (spot contract) and XAG/USD London Silver (spot contract)

Crude Oil CFDs

USOILmonth/YY* US Crude Oil Future Contract, that means USOILJLY16 means USOIL of 2016.7. 

Index CFDs

CHI50, HK50, AUS200, EU50, FRA40, GER30, JP225, UK100, US30, SPX500 and NAS100.

Shares CFDs

Apple, Inc, American International Group, Inc, Amazon, American Express Company, Boeing Company, Alibaba Group Holding Limited, Bank of America Corporation, Cisco Systems, Inc, Chevron Corporation, eBay Inc, Ford Motor Company, Facebook, Inc, FedEx Corporation General Electric Company, General Motors Company, Alphabet Inc Class C(Google), Goldman Sachs Group, Inc, Hewlett-Packard Company, International Business Machines Corp, Intel Corporation, Johnson & Johnson, JP Morgan Chase & Co, Coca-Cola Company, MasterCard, Inc, McDonald’s Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Netflix, Inc and more. 

ATFX Bonus Promotions

The broker promotion depends on country restriction. Usually, the broker offers $100 USD welcome credit promotion for new join. 

Education

The broker doesn’t provide any education. But you can find some basic guide that combine in the “Basic Knowledge of Forex” section. They provide some short intro about what is forex, Forex quotes, and lot, Pip, Leverage and Margin and why you trade Forex. ATFX also provide market outlook, economic colander, authoritative & profound data analysis, seminar and workshops. 

Customer Support

The broker providing service over 10 years. Currently they are offering service in 13 languages include English, German, Italian, Arabic, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Thai, Mandarin, Spanish, Uyghur, etc.

Hotline:

China???   400-1200-143

Korea???   02-3143-9439

Malaysia?? 1800813690

Philippines?  63 (2) 231 2153

Taiwan???0080 112 7901

Thailand?? 1800012752

Vietnam? ?+84 284 458 1666

Email: cs.gm@atfx.com and for Middle East customer cst@atfxgm.com. Disputes/Complaints: complaints.gm@atfx.com, Partnerships:ib.gm@atfx.com

ATFX offers 24/5customer support, they also offer website live chat support 

The broker also provide support via most popular social media such as FB, Linkedin Twitter and Instagram.